Need an Idea for Honey Gift Basket

[tbonekel]

Next weekend, my church is having our annual dessert auction to raise money for youth camp. It is not uncommon for a cake to sell for $300. It's a really fun event! Anyway, I want to put together a gift basket with a jar or two of honey offer it up for auction. I'm not really creative when it comes to this so I could use some ideas that would help to bring in a higher bid.

[Ladyleo191]

What about a small homemade loaf of bread wrapped in colorful cling wrap? Or a pack or two of flower seeds that you know attract bees in your areas? Maybe some herbal tea bags, or a few recipes that include honey?

I'm not creative either, so feel free to toss these ideas aside as you get better ones.

[Jen]

Honey sticks. Honey dippers. A small box of gourmet butter crackers, look in the gourmet section. Bit-O-Honey candy bar. Honey lip balm. Maybe a bottle or two of honey mead/beer if you can find it.

Love the tea bag idea and flower seeds.

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I would be happy to mail you one of my beeswax lotion bars, 

[Perry]

We made one up for a silent auction fundraiser just before Christmas.

Nice wicker basket
Bottle of Honey wine (purchased for $20)
2 wine glasses
Jar of regular honey
Jar of creamed honey
Beeswax candles (tapered)
Half dozen T-lite candles
1 small jar of Burt's Bees moisturizer
Hand crafted ceramic bowl (small) with bees on it

All wrapped in clear cellophane and tied up with raffia.

[Bakersdozen]

We made one up for a silent auction fundraiser just before Christmas.

Nice wicker basket
Bottle of Honey wine (purchased for $20)
2 wine glasses
Jar of regular honey
Jar of creamed honey
Beeswax candles (tapered)
Half dozen T-lite candles
1 small jar of Burt's Bees moisturizer
Hand crafted ceramic bowl (small) with bees on it

All wrapped in clear cellophane and tied up with raffia.

Perry this sounds like the romantic beekeepers basket.  Ooh La La!

Seriously, these are all really good ideas.  Since it's spring you could add a small pot of catmint or something equally attractive to bees.  How about a video of one of the bee documentaries? or that Disney animated bee movie that was out a few years ago?

[tbonekel]

Thanks for the wonderful ideas, everyone! I now have something to go with!

[hamptor]

(I think I lost my post so this might show up twice!  HOpe not!)
The cooking stores around here (like Sur La Table) have a fun spatula with honey bees painted on them.  Not expensive.
If you want to up the ante on the value of the basket, they also have some nice drink glasses with bees "sculpted" on them.  They're by La Rochere and are about $10 a glass, but less on Amazon.   I got a set as a Christmas present.
You can also find really nice little hand towels online with bee designs or embroidered on them.   (That's for next year's Christmas list:))

[Jen]

I'm going to check into that Hamptor. This thread has spurred on a brilliant idea! I sell honey, honey lotion, beewax wood polish, honey vanilla for baking, and beeswax lotion bars, in a gallery here in town. Sales are minimal thru the year but during the holidays sales go up considerably. I'm thinking of making a small gift basket of bee products wrapped in clear celophane to sell in the gallery.

Oh No! Just what I need... another project    However! I can't resist 

[efmesch]

How about cutting out a square of your honeycomb with that variegated pollen and packing it in? 
For those in the know, it should be a real treat.  For those who don't know, it could be a real educational experience.  [You mean bees collect, store and eat pollen?!!] 

[Jen]

Brilliant Idea Ef!

[riverbee]

sorry, a little late tbone, some great ideas!
what i have done in the past, mostly for rod and gun club raffles/auctions and a yearly trout unlimited event, i have built like a 'tool/garden type' box, simple really, out of pine, round handle (dowel) at the top.  this gets the wives to bid, just for the box. large jar of honey, a chunk of honey comb, a small round chunk of beeswax (those who bowhunt and/or fish use this stuff).......votive candles packaged up, some lip balm, a bottle of mead (not my own) and a honey dipper.

also for the rod and gun club functions i stick in there a hand made turkey call from a guy that makes them in wisconsin, and for the trout unlimited event, i throw in a dozen various hand tied flies i tied myself.

and most importantly my card!

i just get some of that grassy stuff, and put everything in the box. either event, it's always a great hit!

[tbonekel]

I wanted to show what we came up with. This picture is not complete. We added a jar of regular honey to go with the jar of chunk. Then we added a small jar of some homemade cinnamon honey butter. The basket went for $310. Not bad! All in all, the youth made about $9000 not counting additional donations.

[Jen]

I Love It! 

[riverbee]

very cool tbone!

and ps, love the flowers and honey pot and dipper! what a great idea!

[lazy shooter]

You did well Tbone.  That's good looking basket.

[Les]

The basket turned out great and I love everybody's ideas.....what a creative group of folks we have on this site.